> Even if everything checks out today, they can > start failing one by one tomorrow, and in 6 months you can > have a card with no working ports.
Hi Rich, That's true. Those components are going to fail sooner or later and need to be replaced. > > Foundry seems to have one of the worst problems in this area > by far, primarily with certain brands of optics used in early > production runs (I used to know which, but I've honestly > stopped caring). Other versions of the same cards can still > run forever, but you never know what you're going to get. If > you really care and you can work a soldering iron, it's cheap > and easy to replace those 1x9 transceivers, but personally > this stopped being worth my time compared to buying new > systems with 6x the density a long time ago. :) Can you tell me please what module I need to order and maybe where I can get it? I don't want to throw a whole card away only because of ONE broken port. > > If you really must keep using (or at least doing new > deployments of) those things, do yourself a favor and buy > cards with modular optics like M4s and BxGs for a few bucks more. We have deployed a lot of those modules and I need to to get them replaced. The problem is that I need the GIGEs on the managementcard because all other slots are full so I need to get them fixed. I can't mix jetcore and ironcore but the M4s you were mentioning are an option. Are you absolutely sure that they are not affected by this problem? Gunther
